Urban Form and Daily Mobility Interactions: an Analysis of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts Thanks to LUTI Model Simulations
Résumé
The spatial organization of cities deeply changed all along the 20th century, but the effects of urban form
on daily trips are still under debate (Ewing and Cervero, 2010). However, methods used to appreciate
these impacts are not really efficient to separate the different factors: as well as through city comparisons
or through diachronic analysis, even thanks to LUTI modelling, it is difficult to separate urban form impacts
from economical or cultural contexts or general changes (Echenique et al., 2012). In addition, the tools to
assess urban planning and transport policies are often focused on one dimension of sustainable
development, with restricted economic or environmental approaches, and rarely take the social dimension
into account. Last, the results are provided at an aggregated level, without differentiation between
household types (depending on their location, level of income, etc.)
The main purpose of that presentation is to propose a simulation exercise carried out from a real city case
and testing the impacts of differentiated tendencies of urban form, all other things being equal. These
results will be provided for the 3 pillars of sustainable development and distinguished by type of
households, both for the household expenditures (Pelé et Nicolas, 2016) and for the environmental
impacts of transport (François et al., 2017).
The SIMBAD LUTI model, calibrated on the Lyon urban area (France) by the LAET (Nicolas et al., 2013), has
been used to simulate different urban form trends and to assess their social, economic and environmental
impacts. More precisely, the results are based on the construction of 3 urban form scenarios inspired from
the VILMODes project (collaboration between THEMA, LVMT and LAET laboratories, supported by the
French PREDIT program – Antoni et al., 2015):
. A scenario of a polycentric urban area, with sub-hubs distributed along a tram-train network, consistent
with the Transit Oriented Development principals (Calthorpe, 1993);
. A scenario of a sprawled urban area, with a stronger proportion of people located in the remote parts of
the center;
. A scenario of a monocentric urban area, compacted around a dense city center.
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